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Pliosaurs were aquatic carnivorous reptiles, not dinosaurs, that lived between 220 and 70 million years ago. This pliosaur has not yet been named scientifically but may be a specimen of Yuzhoupliosaurus chengjiangensis.

Xiongguanlong means ‘dragon from Xiong Guan’ in Mandarin, and baimoensis is from the Mandarin for ‘white ghost’, referring to the ‘White Ghost Castle’ rock formation near the fossil site. This meat-eater was an early tyrannosaur that grew to about 5 metres long.

Diamantinasaurus matildae, a titanosaur recently discovered near Winton in central Queensland, is the most complete Australian sauropod known. Diamantinasaurus and a second titanosaur, Wintonotitan, are the first new sauropods described from Australia in over 75 years.

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